I’m baffled why anyone is still on Facebook.

Network effect. I think most people are on Facebook because most people are on Facebook. My local groups have discussions there, local businesses share updates there.

Aside from these, it’s probably mostly people addicted to emotionally blackmailing AI slop - “if you don’t upvote this 12-fingered child prodigy who carved a lifelike wooden dog, he will think that nobody loves him 🥺😭🙏”

A bunch of local groups in my area are only on Facebook, so I still visit every week or so.

Came here to mention F.B. Purity too, it’s pretty much the only thing that makes FB tolerable.

And yea, I only visit FB for some local community groups and pages, and to chat with family in Messenger. I only share articles on my profile maybe once a year, and stopped uploading photos sometime before the pandemic 😅 But sadly it’s still the most mainstream social platform in Europe.

I just checked my browsing history, I haven’t used any genAI since last December 🙃 (and even before that only a handful of times)

I think I’d be fine…

damn that would suck, that’s mostly how I use the site nowadays

damn, I didn’t notice the sarcasm until the handicap plates 😅

afaik some important mod tools are only available on old reddit, so if old goes, so will many of the remaining subreddit mods who haven’t left after the API shutdown

my family still uses Facebook Messenger, it’s only the tech savvier people I hung out with on Telegram that I managed to switch to Signal 😮‍💨

did you try these? https://signalstickers.org/?s=author%3ATelegram+animated%3Atrue

Very disturbing, it was the last straw to switch my chats (besides family) to Signal.

I had held onto Telegram for years because of their fun animated stickers, but yesterday discovered that Signal has those too, actually all sets from Telegram are available on unofficial Signal sticker sites, so now I’m all sorted 😅

yeah, it’s reasonably good, only struggles with more niche searches - when I search for seemingly unrelated topics it often falls back to showing ~5 generic links for one of the topics, then ~5 generic links for the other, but if I search for the same with Google &udm=14, it finds the specific niche overlap I was looking for